Working as a special assistant to the GM at Houston Astros camp in Kissimmee, Fla. on Monday, Roger Clemens weighed in on his failure to be elected to baseball's Hall of Fame.

"You don't have any control over it," He said. "You know what you did in your career. I can't control it so I am not going to lose any sleep over it. If those guys feel I deserve to be there, then I deserve to be there. If they feel I don't that's OK too."

On paper, Clemens' Hall of Fame credentials are unassailable. Across parts of 24 major league seasons, the righty racked up 354 wins, 4672 strikeouts, seven Cy Young Awards and 11 All-Star nods.

But Clemens appeared on only 37.6 percent of Hall of Fame ballots in his first year of eligibility, well short of the 75 percent needed for election. Like all-time home-run leader Barry Bonds, Clemens likely lost votes due to suspicions that he used performance-enhancing drugs.

Clemens' name appeared in the Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball, but in 2008 he swore under oath at a congressional hearing that he never took performance-enhancing drugs, and in 2012 he was found not guilty of perjury and obstruction of Congress for his 2008 appearance.

"I've had a great time when I've gone to Cooperstown whether it be with the kids at the dreams park, go running around those streets," Clemens said. "I know a lot of people that work over there, too. The people have been nothing but great with me out on the streets.

"I treat people the way I want to be treated. That's the way my mother always taught me.''